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I have been taking one 50mg tablet a day for arthritis and neuropathic pain and while it does take the edge off a little bit, I don't want to increase the doseage since it can be somewhat addictive. Been on it for approx. one year.

I use Tramadol for my painful joints and degenerative disc disease, but with caution. Tramadol CAN be addictive, lots of patients have gotten addicted to it not realizing it. I only take it when I have to have pain relief, I have no addiction issues but I am very aware when it comes to medications. Just be aware and research every drug is my motto!

When I had the open heart surgery 2 years ago, they had put me on Percocet (sp) but that knocked me out. I asked them to try tramadol (the brand name is Ultram) and that took care of the pain without knocking me out - as long as they gave it to me on schedule it would bring the pain from a 10+ down to 2 or 3. If they didn't give it to me on schedule and there were a few times I had asked for it and the nurse never got the message so the pain would escalate back up to a 9 or 10. Thus it took longer for it to kick in! Finally I had to complain to the surgeon when he came to check on me - that was the end of the delays!!! But truthfully, I was very surprised it worked on such horrific pain. I am on tramadol and cyclobenziprine to manage my fibromyalgia flareups - and truthfull, it worked better on the open heart surgery.

I was on Tramadol several years ago. It seemed to give moderate help for a short time, but soon seemed to lose its effectiveness for me. My main problem with it was that it made me extremely sleepy. I don't know, however, if those are the results with everyone who take it.Rick

I take that medicine but only as needed-I have arthritis inmy back and exercize every day in the pool so the back feels much better so I only take it when I need it. I do feel that it is no good if the pain is really bad.

My vascular surgeon prescribed Tramadol after the vein ablations. I took three over a 24 hour period before I figured out the extreme dizziness I had was from Tramadol and not the after effects of the anesthesia. Threw out the rest of the bottle after it expired.

I was prescribed tramadol last summer for a really horrible sunburn. It helped ease the pain without completely knocking me out which is what Vicodin does. I didn't use it all and occasionally take one for my migraines, because it eases the pain enough so that I can go to sleep naturally which is what really gets rid of my migraines.The only side effects that I've encountered from Tramadol is an upset stomach.

I lost a good female friend around Thanksgiving or 2010 because she got a perforation in her stomach which perforated her pancreatic artery as well. She bled out after having 2 complete changes of blood pumped into her. I believe it was Tramadol which she taking for pain from a drunk driver hitting her.

I myself had been given a bleeding ulcer from a medication which had aspirin as a component (Aggrenox) to keep my blood from clotting. That same weekend she died, I ended up in the hospital with what turned out to be a bleeding duodenal ulcer. I was researching that question of why, when I read in a foot note that Tramadol was implicated in stomach perforations.

I had attended my middle son's wedding with Suzannnie as my friend, and she was complaining of stomach pain at that time about 1 month before her death. I had no idea at that time why she would be having those pains. But all the while she was downing the tamadol kinda like candy (in my opinion). Was the tramadol burrowing through her stomach at that time and she was trying to cover the pain with more tramadol?

Tramadol is clasified as a NSAID (non steroidal anti inflammatory drug) along with Aspirin and a few other common OTC "pain killers". I wrote a discussion on the dangers of NSAIDs not long after SuzAnnie died. Should you wish you may read it here ~ http://www.diabeticconnect.com/discussions/10...

So what to do? Take the medication EXACTLY as prescribed. And be aware of stomach pain, and if the Tramadol causes stomach pain, get to the Dr and get that med changed to something else.

Tramadol hydrochloride is a centrally acting synthetic analgesic used to treat moderate to moderately severe pain. The drug has a wide range of applications, including treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, restless legs syndrome, motor neurone disease and fibromyalgia. It was launched and marketed as Tramal by the German pharmaceutical company Grünenthal GmbH in 1977.